[85.]
¶ Dinner matters.
For hunger or thirst,
Serue cattle well first.
Dinner time.
1
By noone[E444] see your dinner, be readie and neate,
let meate [tarrie] seruant, not seruant his meate.
2
Plough cattle a [baiting], call seruant to dinner,
the thicker togither, the charges the thinner.
Togither is best,
For hostis and gest.
3[1]
Due season is best, altogither is gay,
dispatch hath no fellow, make short and away.
4
Beware of Gill [laggoose], disordring thy house,
mo dainties who catcheth, than craftie fed mouse!
Let such haue ynough,
That follow the plough.